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    Door weatherstrip

    Another day, another question! I went to put the weather stripping seals on and nothing seems to be lining up 100%... It's my fault as I made the mistake of having the body shop remove all the old rubber for paint and dropped of a new complete Precision kit to replace everything. I picked it...
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    GMC Hood Ornament

    Hey All, I’m putting my Suburban back together and trying to clean it up as I go. Does anyone know if they sell a complete “paint gasket” kit for emblems, etc? Also, I was trying to restore my existing hood emblem if anyone has any tips or posts they could point me towards? I’d consider a...
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    Tire damage

    Hey All, Got a question for everyone..I just picked up a set of used Mickey Thompson tires and while I was stacking them away I saw this chunk loose on one of them... Do I need to worry about this or throw some glue on it?
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    Suburban Tailgate Window Switch

    Hey All! In going down the proverbial rabbit hole with the tailgate I pulled out the regulator to clean/lube and the tailgate switch because it didn't work. In lubing up the regulator, has anyone ever used SLIP Plate (graphite spray) on the geared pieces? I think the rollers should still get...
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    Sound dampening

    In pulling out all my boxes of stuff to put this Suburban back together, I found my boxes of Kilmat... I have (2) 36 sq ft boxes and vaguely remember my plan to be do the floors with the Kilmat and with the ceiling, doing foil backed foam in between the headliner almost like a wall assembly...
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    Mystery hole on fenders

    Hey All! Just got the ok Burb back from the paint shop and now the reassembly process begins! I was trying to lay out all the parts and see what I’m missing, what they lost and what I need to order and noticed a hole in the fenders I didn’t have them fill and realized there wasn’t anything in...
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    Winch Mount

    Hey all! Finally getting my Suburban back from paint shop…I wasn’t sweating the guy because I had some other pressing issues and he essentially stored it for me for the last year but excited to get her put back together finally! I have a 12,000lb winch I want to put on the front but admittedly...
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    Side Marker Gasket

    Hey All! So the big dog is coming home from the paint shop (after almost a year, I didn't push it as I had other things to deal with) and I'm trying to get everything I need to put it back together. I got the full weatherstrip kit from Precision and the body guys got that going but I realized...
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    Suburban Interior Trim

    Hey All! I'm picking back up my project as it should be back from the paint shop shortly (hopefully anyways) after being there since Oct 23! I wasn't in a hurry as I had a few other project to finish up. I went to the junkyard yesterday as they had a 1984 Chevy Suburban 2wd, barn doors (mine...
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    Seat belts

    Hey All! I am waiting to get my Burb back from the paint shop and I have been trying to get all the interior pieces done up so they are ready to install. I am looking at the seat belts and have seen some great restorations on this an another site. One post showed a tutorial and what I think...
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    Emblem clean up

    Hey All, I found some stuff from Chemical Guys I have been using on just about every plastic/rubber part I have put my hands on in the Burb and this stuff is as advertised..It's called VRP and I used it along with some spray wax and 0000 steel wool to clean up my fender emblems and I was...
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    GMC Grille Resto 1981

    Hey all, It looked like the 1981 GMC grille is a one off for that year and I didn't have much success finding a new/repro one so I decided to clean up what I had. I had some missing fins so I laminated a few sheets of fiberglass to the correct thickness, cut/sanded them to size dimension and...
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    Headliner questions

    Hey all! I have a couple of headliner questions..so the entire headliner was sloughing off so I pulled it all down and cleaned it up. I took a sample to the fabric store to match it as best as possible, which turned out I found a pretty decent match. Now that I have taken the board down and...
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    Door panel resto- backyard style

    SirRobyn0 inspired me to try my hand at restoring my door panels as I was stripping the interior to send it to the paint shop. As he said in his thread, are they concourse restoration- no. Do they look 1000% better than what I had-yes. I didn't pay the gouge fee for Chinese plastic parts and I...
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    Speaker pods/General stereo questions

    Hey all! I'd like to upgrade the sound system and will probably try a 7.1 setup with (2) 3.5 and center 4x10 (or adapter to 2x3.5" + tweeter?) in the dash, (2) kick panel speakers, (2) 4x10 in stock rear location (or I think I saw some 6x9 adapters?) and a subwoofer...or should I just omit the...
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    Turn signal not working left side

    Hey all, I replaced my turn signal column switch today and hoped it would solve all my problems, but hope is not a good strategy... I'm still haunted house with my left signal not blinking... However when I turn on the hazards it blinks, somewhat dimmer than the passenger side though. I've...
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    TH350c- Double-Double Feed

    Hey All, I posed the question on my other thread too but I guess I should start another as my tranny isn't slipping, it only has 3rd gear! It also has reverse. Someone said to check the governor which I will do but I was also thinking that when I rebuilt it, it did the dual feed mods (plug...
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    th350 short shaft to 4x4

    So I'm having some trans trouble and I was going to try to swap it out with a "known good" unit to keep the truck operational and tear down the other... From what I can gather, in a 1981 4x4 with an np208 I can use a 2wd short shaft trans and cut 3/4" off of the output shaft? Seems to good to...
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    White smoke troubleshooting

    The hits keep on comin'! Quick history is that the engine was rebuilt by someone I don't have a lot of faith in...I have basically broke in the cam and put about 5-10 miles on the truck and started having all kinds of other issues (the truck sat for 5 years)... One issue from the beginning...
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    TH350c Slipping

    Hey all, I was finally able to get everything put back together in my 1981 Suburban and my hope was to take it down to get a smog check and registered...however on my way back from getting gas (a painful $5.79 per gal btw) the trans was slipping something fierce. It's a fresh rebuild, I did the...
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    Horns

    I've read most of the threads on the horns but had a couple questions?! So when I press the horn button-nothing. No click at the relay, nada I pulled the relay and I have power at the orange wires (I have 3 contacts at the plug- 2 orange wires, 1 black, 1 green) I tried to jumper the orange...
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    Emissions after MSD Ignition/EFI

    Hopefully someone can take a look at this and let me know if it makes sense as I know very little about this stuff! So I'm using an Atomic EFI system, MSD 6AL box and MSD 85551 distributor. All of the items have a CARB exemption so in theory I should be able to pass smog check with all the...
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    New engine startup

    Hey All! Tonight I finally got to a point to where I was able to make an attempt at starting the engine in my 1981 Suburban. Quick history, new engine and I'm using an MSD Atomic EFI system. It's a new engine so I was hoping to get it up to 2000-2500 rpm to break in the camshaft however Murphy...
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    Tuff Country 12711K lift kit for sale- best offer

    Hey All, During my project somehow I ended up with 2 of the same lift kits for my 1981 Suburban..unless I pick up another Suburban project anytime soon I should probably sell one off I wanted to give it a decent stance but trying to keep everything as stock as possible so it's a 2" lift kit...
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    1981 K10 Suburban ECM questions

    Hey All, Trying to get everything hooked up to fire this thing up and break it in but trying to figure out what exactly needs to be hooked up since I ditched the carb and installed an MSD Atomic EFI, also the 6AL box, distributor and coil which are all CARB approved... In the process of doing...

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